"Meldrew of Meldreth" wrote in message
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In article , Jonn Elledge
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Romford's in the London Borough of Havering and the GLA. I grew up there
and
thought of it as both outer London and Essex; a lot of people I knew in
the
area agreed.

I spent a lot of the 60's and 80's in Brentwood, a town with an identity
crisis. Londoners think it's in the country, and country folk think it's
in London. Perhaps the London busses, which it had then, and the
population of Eastenders-made-good, confused people.


It finally got an identity in the mid-nineties when it was highly publicised
for a while in the tabloids as "Most Boring Town ni Britain." Mainly because
of some problems finding a theme for the town pageant (I mean, come on, this
is where the peasant's revolt started), but also because it's an anagram of
"Bored Town".

(Sadly I went to Brentwood School for longer than I care to recollect).

Jonn